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nirmalon 2007 Boston Mooninite Panic

I was taking a class around this time that involved programming and Atari 2600. I made a game based around this event.

nirmalon Show HN: WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air

Same error MacBook Air and Chrome 23.0.1271.10 dev

nirmalon Collusion - iPad pen productivity solved

I asked about the lag and they responded with this tweet. https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/collusionapp/status/2083668457...

nirmalon Quick hack to focus all parts of a Lytro image

Sadly I haven't had time to dig into the full data file. Hence the quick hack using a few jpegs instead of all of the data. :)

nirmalon Netflix credit for recent disrupted service

I actually didn't notice the outage. I didn't even click the link. Was the outage for 3% of a month?

nirmalon Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released

When I first started interacting with APIs that use JSON I wanted a JS library to automatically convert a JSON structure into, hopefully semantically correct, HTML which I could then easily style with CSS. At the time I couldn't find anything but I did write a simple piece of JS. I show an example of how I used it to style tweets on my site: http://nirmalpatel.com/json2posh/

nirmalon IPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown

Of note, the Nano uses the earbud cable as the antenna.

nirmalon Pianobar command-line Pandora client

Should probably have linked directly to the github repo https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

nirmalon Show/Tell HN: My (New Year's) Resolution Is

I don't have any resolutions but it would be great to have the homepage randomly show resolutions others have made. For example, "XXX's New Year's resolutions include YYY. (Click to see more)"

nirmalon Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental).

On my blog I use "Have a comment? Contact me on Twitter or email me." with links for "Twitter" and "email me".

nirmalon Google Voice for iPhone Released

Guess I'm sticking with Boxcar for iPad push notifications.

Same here, except using Notifo.

nirmalon Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags

Just finished with a conference where the name badge had holes on both ends of the top edge of the badge. The lanyard part went through both. This doesn't completely stop the "flipping around" problem but does mitigate it.

nirmalon Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags

http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00gMKtuIrnhDoe/Magnetic-N...

Stick badge on one side, hold to lapel with magnet.

nirmalon Show HN: Critique my pro football (NFL) data webapp

I sent a link to my friends who play fantasy football to see if the stats were of use to them.

One thing I can say is that I love the attention to detail you put in the slider thumb labels. Especially for those where the labels would collide and you merge them into a single label showing an interval.

nirmalon Collapsible comments for Hacker News

To be notified when someone replies to me I use Notifo (http://notifo.com/) and put my Notifo username in my HN profile. I don't think you need a mobile device to use Notifo, you can install a desktop app that provides notifications when you get a reply. http://notifo.com/desktop

nirmalon 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard

Sure thing. That is another way to hone in on the center. Some sort of tactile gravity well implementation. I think that if 5-ways on candy bar phones were actually joysticks instead of 5 buttons this may work better. And it could definitely work on devices with mini-trackballs.

nirmalon 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard

Like the concept, reminds me of QuickWrite. However, I am skeptical of claims that text could be entered without viewing. At a minimum it seems that viewing would be required to target the center circle. Maybe this could be solved by "re-centering" the entire input space based on initial touch.

nirmalon ShoutKey - Temporary URL Shortener by jazzychad

Good thing ShoutKey gives you the key as opposed to you choosing it. I can imagine someone ShoutKey squatting otherwise.

nirmalon Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident

I've been wanting to see proper support of combinations of column-height, column-width and column-span for a long time. I would definitely be a user of a library if it could give me these features.

nirmalon Google's new data center in Finland

Google plans to employ 50-60 people to run the data center. So far they have found four, so they have some head hunting to do.

Google Maps says Hamina is a 2 hour drive from Helsinki, can any Finns comment on if this is an accurate time? Or is it one of those 6 months of the year the roads are dead sort of thing?

nirmalon Christopher “Moot” Poole's testimony in the Palin email hacking case

Typo on page 13. "Rickroll is a mean or Internet kind of trend..."

nirmalon Rapidly Developing Fish Feeder: How I Created A Facebook Game in 6 Days

Ian Bogost appears flattered. http://www.bogost.com/blog/cow_clicker_cloned.shtml

nirmalon Halo for the Atari 2600

To play the rom on your own machine try Stella. http://stella.sourceforge.net/

Also as part of a class dedicated to the Atari 2600 I made these games: http://nirmalpatel.com/hacks/atari.html

Let me know why you think.

nirmalon Obama demos healthcare.gov

Follow along at http://www.healthcare.gov/

nirmalon How Coca-Cola won the war

It does. Also as far as the Georgia Tech campus goes you won't find a Pepsi vending machine anywhere. Even the on-campus Pizza Hut sells Coke.

nirmalon Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

But once you get past the first round of stomach churning illness that food and tea is great! It's usually all I eat when I visit family in India. I haven't gotten sick from road-side food for the last 6 trips back.

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Yep, sorry about that. The link that I followed and submitted was not the right one. Just got to my laptop and realized what happened.

nirmalon Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers

Looks like they are blocking more than just Posterous.

@jazzychad: "ARGH. @twitpic is blocking the whole slicehost/rackspace cloud IP block again. /cc @cloudsupport @posterous"

http://twitter.com/jazzychad/status/17381172407

nirmalon How I sold 172 copies of my HTML iPad app in the first 8 days

Because it's not a storefront to sell apps, it's just a catalog, and the developer of the webapp needs to take care of anything like that on their own.

I understand that it is a catalog and not a store. I didn't mean to imply that the exact webpage you linked was a storefront.

How would Apple try to cash in on these when most of them are free or tied to a service that I assume a lot of developers created the webapp for in the first place, rather than have to fork over 30%/pay the $99 iOS Developer Program fee/deal with review hassles with Apple?

Other than the OP I have seen other complete applications built on top of web technologies. I can believe that there are some web devs who would be willing to have their app reviewed and do the revenue share if it meant they didn't have to worry about setting up a store front and handling payments.

nirmalon How I sold 172 copies of my HTML iPad app in the first 8 days

Oh, I realized that after I read the article. I just misinterpreted the title.